"This Is It" raised its domestic total to $32.5 million. The movie pulled in$68.5 million overseas, including $10.4 million in Japan, $6.3 million inGermany, $5.8 million in France and $3.2 million in China.

"He's just loved everywhere on the planet," said Rory Bruer, head ofdistribution for Sony. "It doesn't matter if it's Asia, Africa, Australia,Europe, South America. Every continent in the world loved him and hismusic."

In Great Britain, where Jackson had planned a marathon series of 50 Londonconcerts starting last July, the movie earned $7.6 million.

"This Is It" captures Jackson in behind-the-scenes performances in the weeksbefore his death last June, as he rehearsed his biggest hits for the Londonshows.

"This Is It" originally was scheduled for a theatrical run of only twoweeks. The studio has extended it a few more weeks domestically, leaving itin theaters through Thanksgiving weekend, one of the year's busiestmoviegoing times.

Sony plans to extend the run of "This Is It" overseas on acountry-by-country basis, with most territories probably getting one tothree weeks of extra playing time, Bruer said.

The studio paid $60 million for film rights to Jackson's rehearsal footage,an investment the movie recouped in days.

"They bet $60 million on this and got $101 million in just five days," saidPaul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. "It was a gambleand a bet that paid off."

The movie fell far short of last year's $31.1 million opening weekenddomestically for "Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both WorldsConcert." But Bruer said "This Is It" has a shot at surpassing the $65.3million domestic total during the entire run of Cyrus' movie, which tops theall-time charts for music documentaries.

Worldwide, "This Is It" already h as shot past Cyrus' concert film. Cyrusmainly appeals to American teens, and her movie got only a limited releaseoverseas, where it took in about $5 million to give the film a global totalof just over $70 million.

"This Is It" played in 3,481 theaters domestically, about five times thenumber for Cyrus' movie. But "Best of Both Worlds" ran in 3-D, for whichtheaters typically charge a few dollars more.

And Cyrus' young fans are an audience segment that tends to rush out to seemovies over opening weekend, the movie doing nearly half its business in thefirst few days.

Sony hopes for a longer shelf life for "This Is It," which drew older crowdsthat catch movies on their own schedule, with less regard for theopening-weekend frenzy. Fans older than 25 accounted for 62 percent of theaudience, according to Sony.

While "Paranormal Activity" led Halloween's scary movies, an establishedhorror franchise lost its fear factor as Lionsgate's "Saw VI" fell sharplyin its second weekend after an anemic debut.

"Saw VI" came in at No. 5 this weekend with $5.6 million, raising its totalto just $22.8 million after 10 days. Previous sequels in the serial-killerseries all had topped $30 million during opening weekend alone.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadiantheaters, according to Hollywood.com; final figures will be released Monday: